AVIATION: Salesman at Work

In Burbank, Calif, one day last week, a big shark-bodied plane rose from
the Lockheed Air Terminal, circled out across the San Fernando Valley
and headed east over the mountains. It was a notable event and a
red-letter day for Pan American Airways: that was the first of the
fleet of Lockheed Constellations for Pan Am's globe-girdling routes.

To the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., it was an event, too. But in the
sprawling cluster of factory buildings, still in their muddy green and
yellow camouflage of war, everyone was too busy to cheer....